Research Guides: Medill Career Research: Background

IMC example: Business news in the Bay Area, San Francisco

San Francisco Business Times
Free version. Keyword search available. Includes access to some back issues.
Silicon Valley Business Journal
Free version. Keyword search available. Includes some back issues.

Regional Business News
Depending on city or region, Regional Business News provides full text for *some* regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources.
Gartner Intraweb
Online service providing product and market research reports for the information technology (IT) industry as well as reports on technologies used within various spheres of business and electronic commerce.

Restricted to the Northwestern University faculty, staff, and students, with no walk-in user access.

If a user encounters an error message "An error occurred during Federation with Gartner" they need to make their NU email address publicly visible in the directory.
Forrester
Northwestern subscribes to partial full text services (no webinars). Limit search by selecting Only My Access.

Forrester's research publications analyze a broad range of technology areas such as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications and the Internet, and project how technology trends will affect businesses, consumers, and society. Forrester reports include up-to-date industry statistics, as well as illustrative graphs and charts.

Identifying professional and trade associations and publications

There are many ways to identify trade or industry associations as well as trade journals within a field or industry. Below are a few places to look.

Journalism example: Business news in New York

Crain's New York Business
Free version. Some back issue content available.

Regional Business News
Includes Crain's New York Business.
Communication Source
Combining the content of Communication & Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts, this comprehensive resource offers content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields. Coverage goes back to 1915.

As a journalist, I want to write about...

From social justice, to politics, to fashion... Try these out for finding articles from popular press, news, and academic journals across many subjects.

Academic Search Complete
This multidisciplinary database provides access to articles from journals, magazines, and reference sources across all subject areas. Coverage is primarily from 1980 to the present, with some older content.
Access World News
Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources. This archive provides comprehensive coverage of current events (history in the making) and historical events.